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...interest. They range from such press lords as William Randolph Hearst (Aug. 15, 1927; May 1, 1933 and March 13, 1939) and the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert McCormick (May 7, 1928 and June 9, 1947) to such comic-strippers as Milton Caniff (Jan. 13, 1947) and Al Capp (Nov. 6, 1950); from such pundits as Walter Lippmann (March 30, 1931 and Sept. 27, 1937) to such scriveners as Walter Winchell (July 11, 1938); from such publishers as the New York Daily News's Joseph Patterson (May 7, 1928) to his daughter Alicia of Long Island...
...Abner (Paramount), the Hollywood version of the Broadway version of Al Capp's comic strip, is a great big overblown pink-walled synthetic two-time reCapp. Like all Capp, it is Rabelais for the retarded, but it will probably carry an impressive bundle to the bank...
...these questions, Cartoonist Capp's millions of unflagging fans will find satisfactory answers. In the Broadway musical, the Capp characters were type-cast with amazing accuracy, and most of the Broadway players are there in the Hollywood production. The show's score (words by Johnny Mercer, music by Gene de Paul) is the big letdown: a chance to make good mountain music is passed up in favor of bad Broadway tunes. But the story gallops along, and the dancing scenes preserve the essential whomp. They'll love it in Lower Slobbovia...
...publicize the Combined Charities Drive, Al Capp, creator of Li'l Abner, has prepared a special series of Yokum cartoons...
...Capp spoke of Nixon's television appearance during the 1952 campaign, when the candidate refuted charges that "well-heeled California patriots had been slipping this boy $18,000 a year." Concluding, he said, "The great and compelling reason to put Nixon in the White House is that we can keep our eyes upon...